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Egypt's Protests Flare Despite Military Warning

CAIRO -- Airport employees protested for better pay Wednesday, textile workers went on strike to demand a corruption investigation and residents of a Suez Canal city pressed for closing a chemical factory they say is dumping toxic waste into a lake in the latest wave of unrest shaking Egypt. The ruling military council...

American Retiree Trapped in Cairo Apartment Back Safely in US

The retired American nurse who armed herself against protesters in Egypt with a rolling pin and boiling water before fleeing in a scary trip down the dark staircase of her apartment building has returned to the U.S., proclaiming: "God bless America. I'm happy to be home." Mary Thornberry, who moved to Cairo 15 years ago...

US Evacuates Americans From Cairo

Foreigners are jamming Cairo's airport today while the U.S. and other governments scramble to evacuate their citizens from Egypt as riots, looting and lawlessness spread across a nation struggling to overthrow nearly 30 years of authoritarian rule -- and still uncertain of what's to come. President Hosni Mubarak swore in...

Confusion Grows Over Stolen Van Gogh Painting

(Aug. 22) -- The investigation into how a Van Gogh painting was snatched from a Cairo museum has turned into a farce worthy of fictional French detective Inspector Jacques Clouseau. News of the painting's theft -- known as both the "Poppy Flowers" and "Vase With Flowers" -- broke Saturday when Egypt's minister of culture...

Background on cairo airport

Cairo International Airport (Arabic: مطار القاهرة الدولي Maṭār al-Qāhirah al-Duwaliyy) is the busiest airport in Egypt and the primary hub for Star Alliance member EgyptAir.

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